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By Michael Corkery and Shaila Dewan Just months before this week’s mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine’s Legislature considered three major bills to tighten gun restrictions: one to require ...
Lewiston Police Chief David St. Pierre says shootings and crime rates are down in the city ... about gun violence. Lewiston Public Schools Superintendent Jake Langlais told NEWS CENTER Maine ...
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Legislature approved sweeping gun safety legislation ... 25 shooting by an Army reservist in Lewiston, Maine's second-largest city, served as tragic backdrop for ...
A longtime city ... Lewiston, referring to the shock that many people in Maine have expressed about the killings. "I mean, it's happening everywhere," she said. Craven is pushing for a series of ...
took to the lectern at Lewiston City Hall and stunned the room. It was less than a day after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, and one of Congress’s most ardent gun rights supporters said he ...
Officers arrested 35-year-old Troy Blanchard after a brief standoff Tuesday night near Horton and Walnut streets.
Maine does not require permits for carrying concealed weapons, does not require background checks for all gun ... on Lewiston shootings Maine officials held a press conference at Lewiston City ...
As Lewiston Auburn ... proactively to address gun violence in the city of Lewiston,” Amores said. Longchamps said she’d also like to see community groups like Maine Immigrant and Refugee ...
The mayor of Lewiston, Maine ... Biden to his city, where a gunman killed 18 people and left more than a dozen wounded last week. Biden called for consensus on reforms to rein in gun violence ...
With a Lewiston ... city, I believe, needs to stop making decisions that entice people to come here and commit crime. Show me a city that has a drug problem, and I’ll show you a city that has a ...
After two long days of being locked down amid the manhunt for a gunman who killed 18 people, the small city in Maine ... of life and gun owners’ rights are ardently defended. “Lewiston people ...